A trio of Prairie View A&M coaches will rub elbows with some of the top athletes and coaches in their profession as defensive line assistant Gabe Northern, assistant head/offensive line coach Prince Pearson and safeties coach Bubba McDowell  will intern with NFL organizations during their respective training camps.

The coaches were selected to be a part of the Bill Walsh Minority Fellowship which is designed to expose talented minority college coaches to the methods and philosophies of NFL training camps. Northern will return to the birthplace of his NFL career in Buffalo with the Buffalo Bills, Pearson returns to the state where he played collegiately in the Minnesota Vikings while McDowell rejoins the organization that drafted him out of college in the Tennessee Titans (formerly the Houston Oilers).

A second round draft pick of the Buffalo Bills in 1996, Northern is a five-year NFL veteran who has spent time with the Bills, Pittsburgh Steelers and Minnesota Vikings. A graduate of LSU, Northern has coached on both the high school and collegiate levels.

Pearson is the team's assistant head coach and also coaches the offensive line and tight ends. The Florida native played collegiately at the University of Minnesota and has coached collegiately at the College of the Holy Cross, Texas Southern and Prairie View A&M in addition to a successful stint as a high school coach in Florida.

Pearson has been busy this offseason honing his craft as he also participated in the prestigious NFL-NCAA Coaches Academy in the spring of 2012. Pearson was one of only 30 coaches selected to network and learn from former NFL coaches, general managers and current NCAA head coaches.

McDowell, who's in his second year on the Prairie View A&M football coaching staff, will have somewhat of a homecoming as he'll intern with the Tennessee Titans.  McDowell was an NFL All-Pro and fan favorite with the Houston Oilers throughout his six-year career in Houston after graduating from the University of Miami.  The Oilers moved to the state of Tennessee in 1997 before assuming its current mascot in 1999.  This marks the fourth fellowship for McDowell as he interned with the Green Bay Packers, Miami Dolphins and Houston Texans.